In 2011, Marc Patrick O’Leary was arrested on charges that he’d viciously raped at least three women in the state of Colorado. In his home, police found underwear belonging to the victims, gloves and sneakers matching prints left behind in the victims’ homes, and a pink camera he’d stolen from one of the women. On the camera, among other things, were photographs of him raping a then-18-year-old girl, who had recently been prosecuted for filing a false police report about the rape.

Last Wednesday, the day after three Muslim college students were killed in Chapel Hill, N.C, a student at the University of Texas-Arlington told police a man followed her to campus in his truck and pointed a gun at her before driving away. On Facebook, she worried he may have singled her out because she's Muslim.

A violent rapist stalking Park Slope? No, just a "damn game of telephone" on the internet. Woops.

Reports of Gabriel García Márquez's retirement have been greatly exaggerated, the ancient Colombian magical realist is complaining. Though his agent said he was done, García Márquez claims that he's always writing. Just not publishing.